Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering (설비공학논문집)

The Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea (대한설비공학회)
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Thermal Comfort of the Floor Supply Air Conditioning System for Different Supply-return Locations during Cooling

급배기 위치에 따른 바닥급기 공조시스템의 냉방 열환경

  • 김요셉 (한국과학기술연구원 열유동제어연구센터) ;
  • 김영일 (한국과학기술연구원 열유동제어연구센터) ;
  • 유호선 (숭실대학교 기계공학과)
  • Published : 2000.05.01
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Abstract

This study numerically investigates thermal comfort in a space cooled by the floor-supply air conditioning system, in which three different supply-return locations, one floor supply-ceiling return and two floor supply-floor returns, are treated. A complementary experiment is peformed to validate the present numerical analysis, and the prediction agrees favorably with the measured data. In the numerical procedure, a simplified model mimicking the inlet flow through the diffuser is developed for efficient simulations. The calculated results show that the ceiling return type is far better in thermal comfort than the floor return ones within the extent of this study, which seems to be caused by effective vertical penetration of the supply air against natural convection. It is also revealed that the arrangement of port locations in the floor supply-floor return system has insignificant effect on the cooling performance. For selecting a proper system, other characteristics including the heating performance should be accounted for simultaneously with the present estimation.

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